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Frederick the Great by Tim Blanning
Category: History
'Highly readable and deeply researched' - Andrew Roberts 'Masterful ...brilliantly brings to life one of the most complex characters of modern European history' - Sunday Telegraph 'It is sure to be the standard English-language account for many years. It instructs; it entertains; and it surprises' - Phi ...Show more
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia by Tim Blanning
Category: History
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th - a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless, brilliant military commander, a monarch of exceptional energy and talent, and a knowledgeable patron of artists, architects and writers ...Show more
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe, 1648-1815 by Tim Blanning
Category: History
"The Pursuit of Glory" brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history - from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. Tim Blanning depicts the lives of ordinary people and th ...Show more
The Romantic Revolution by Tim Blanning
Category: History
Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the romantic revolution - was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From it derive virtually all the cultu ...Show more
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